First and only episode of "Reading Out Loud". Welles reads passages from John Donne's 1633 poem "The Sun Rising" and the 1624 poem "Meditation 17", from which the phrase "no man is an island" originates.

Interviews with audience members and performers at the Mercury Wonder Show. Hal Styles of KMDR interviews Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth on the day of their marriage. Also comments from Bozo the Clown, Marlene Dietrich, and Joseph Cotton.

Similar to the program five days previous - an hour long program examining attitudes about the war, mixing wartime politics and religious elements produced in cooperation with the U.S. Treasury Department.

Rita Hayworth recording dialog for the film The Lady from Shanghai (1947). Orson Welles wrote the screenplay based on the novel, If I Die Before I Wake, by Sherwood King. Welles also directed and co-starred.